This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
ROLLO MAYEvery human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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